We live in a perilous world, a dangerous environment. Watch the television news or read your daily newspapers and you are subjected to a daily diet of robberies, rapes, riots, murders, fires, terrorism, earthquakes, floods and famine. Do you find yourself becoming disturbed by what is happening around you? Do you sometimes feel afraid? In Scientology this phenomenon of the dangerous environment was dissected, providing methods that not only help you overcome your fears, but allow you to help others. The methods covered in the booklet Solutions for a Dangerous Environment and its course will bring about an enormous calming influence and enable people to lead happier lives.

Newspapers and the media can have a depressing effect on a person.
Since they deal largely in bad news, they present a generally bleak picture of the world.
One can carry the bad news around with him and get a negatively distorted idea of his surroundings, which may, in reality, actually be quite calm. The truth of the matter is this: the environment is not as dangerous as it is made to appear.